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I shared this on my SwiftCraftyMonkey Facebook page and in our Syndet Shampoo Bar Facebook group, and thought you might be interested too… Before we start… Learn more about the main ingredient I use in shampoo bars, sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI). Sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) – Fatty acid isethionates – also see A few notes on SCI and click … Read more
I’ve been sharing little stories about how I make shampoo bars over on my social media accounts – SwiftCraftyMonkey on Facebook, and SwiftCraftyMonkey on Instagram – that I’ll share here with you! I’ll update these as I post over there, so this’ll be an ongoing project for at least a few days. Post #1: Melting...
As it seems like people are getting super interested in shampoo bars more than ever – as they should as they are freakin’ awesome! – I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind you of my e-book, the one, the only, the original – Shampoo bars you will love: Creating pH balanced bars! You’ll learn...
“What’s the emulsifier in this shampoo bar formula?” someone asked about a solid shampoo bar that contained butters and other oil soluble ingredients. The short answer is that there isn’t a need for an emulsifier in a shampoo bar that doesn’t contain water because we only need to worry about emulsifiers when we have oil...
Welcome back to this short series where we bust this myth – does you hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? As we noted in the first post – no, it doesn’t. A shampoo bar is a pH balanced hair cleansing product that is just like a liquid shampoo and...